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Patented Sept. 27, I898. H. L. HEATH.

No. 6I|,250.

GLOVE.

(Application filed Apr. 28, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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NrrE STATES PATENT FFICE.

IIEBER L. HEATH, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO HARRY BLOCK AND LEOPOLD BLOCK, OF SAME PLACE.

GLOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 611,250, dated September 27, 1898.

Application filed April 28, 1898.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HEBER L. HEATH, a citizen of the United States of America, residing in the city and county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gloves, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements made in gloves of that style or description in which the parts of the thumb are cut integral with the palm and the back with the view to avoid seams at the base of the thumb and on the palm; and my present improvements consist in certain details of construction, as hereinafter described and claimed, and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

Figure l of the drawings is a front view of a glove embodying my said improvements. Fig. 2 is a back view. Fig. 3 is adiagram of the pattern for the front of the glove, and Fig. 4 a diagram of the pattern for the back. Figs. 5 and 5 are the finger portions to form the middle fingers. v

The back A and the front B of the glove are formed of two separate halves or patterns A B. The backs of the four fingers 1 2 3 at and the back 5 of the thumb O are cut integral with the back A. 1

The front 5 of the thumb and the fronts and sides of the first finger 1 and the fourth finger 4 are cut integral with the front B, a suitable quantity of material being provided on the fingers 1 and P to form the sides of these fingers and throw the seams d from between the fingers upon the back of the glove.

The fronts and sides of the middle fingers 2 3 are formed of separate pieces, Figs. 5 and 5, which are joined to the palm bya seam b across the base of the fingers.

The glove is completed by a wrist portion D, that is joined to the bottom of the back and the palm, this part being joined to the parts A B, so as to throw the slit on the outer edge of the glove in line with the fourth finger.

The blanks for the thumb portions of the two halves are out in a quirk and on such lines that when the two halves are joined together the inside seam of the thumb at the Serial No. 679 ,220. (No model.)

bottom of the angle or crotch where the inside of the thumb joins the side of the palm is increased in length and is thrown toward the front of the glove, the result of which is to avoid wrinkles and enable this seam to resist the strains that it is subjected to. This peculiar manner of cutting the blanks for the 5; front and the back to secure the desired result will be more clearly understood from Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings.

For cutting out the blank for the back the inside edge of the thumb and first finger is cut away on a concave or curved rentering line extending from the bottom 7 upward to a point 8, or tl1ereabout,'on the side of the first finger, above the point where that finger springs from the palm, and on the corresponding portion of theblank for the front an extension 9, extending from the bottom of the inner edge of the thumb-blank 5 upward along the outer edge of the finger-blank 1, is cut integral with that finger, this extension having the outwardly-curved lower portion g. When the edges of these two parts are joined together, the finger-blank 1 is folded about on the line 00 00, so that the seam uniting the edges 7 and 9 9 is thrown over toward the back from the base of the thumb in a quirk or short turn, as shown in Fig. 1. The two halves or blanks are thus joined directly together bya' single continuous seam that allows free movement of the thumb and -re- 8o lieves the crotch of the thumb of all strains without the insertion of fourchettes or separate pieces.

The glove also conforms to the shape of the hand and fits smoothly and comfortably across 8 5 the palm and the back. By this mode of cutting the blanksI secure, besides, several advantages in the manufacture, chiefly in cutting the material without waste and in reducing the labor of sewing.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to se cure by Letters Patent, is' Y A glove comprising the back A fashioned to form in one piece the back portion of the thumb and the back portions of all the fin gers intergral with the back; the front B fashinsides of the third and middle fingers and ioned to form the palm and the front and united to the palm, as hereinbefore described. to sides of the first finger and the fourth finger In testimony that I claim the foregoing I of the glove, the extension integral with the have hereunto set my hand and seal.

5 first finger on the edge thereof, and the quirk HEBER L. HEATH. [L. s]

extending in a curve at the junction of the \Vitnesses: said extension with the crotch of the thumb; HARRY J. LASK,

and the finger portions fashioned to form the THEO. G. LINTON. 

